Gist is really: that the FOA scheme is a device to provoke discussion more than a design- at least at this stage. On this basis, we are doing ok.

Against this, there is the problem, familiar to you and I, with any graphic representation by a designer - that it’s imagined as already built, and takes control. Architects, sometimes innocently but generally corruptly, draw too soon …….
The key is to make the most of their wonderful facility with the synthesis of ideas (it goes, I find, with spatial intelligence) - but to make them keep their hands in their pockets the meantime.

I really do regard FOA’s research-based approach as holding the potential for myriad other ‘formal’ possibilities.

It’s design practice, not just landscape-design practice, that I’m questioning here.

If it works - a big if -Â one could play the same games with the city, if there was ever time with those sorts of projects.

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